Content Management Systems

A content management system, or CMS, is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website. Not only do content management systems help website users with content editing, they also take care of a lot of "behind the scenes" work."

Websites that use content management systems store the website content such as text, links to images in a database. 

So as a website visitor calls up a website by entering the domain name, the CMS calls or pulls the content from the database and displays it in their browser.

So CMS websites pages load the content from the database into the browser - this does take a bit more processing power from your server. 

Here are some popular Content Management systems

WordPress, Joomla, Drupal 

If you are creating a self hosted website then chances are you are going to utilise one of these to create your website. 

In terms of ease of use I would rate them like this.

1. WordPress - no coding experience needed
2. Joomla - some basic coding experience needed
3.  Drupal - requires coding experience

WordPress is the most popular of these content management systems and around 22% of new websites are created using WordPress these days. 

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